Russell Fuller
BBC tennis correspondent in Rouen

There was a sense of inevitability about that third set, but there was very little between them in the first two sets.

Pouille simply played better when the chips were down.

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John Lloyd
Former GB Davis Cup captain on BBC Two

Those last few points from Lucas Pouille were class. You could see his confidence.

Kyle Edmund tried hard, he didn't give up or anything, but sometime his 'B' plan is not there. If someone gets on top of him he tends to go away very quickly and he did that in the third set.

He could be a little more aggressive - do something to change it up.

A look at the stats from Edmund and Pouille's tussle.

Here's Lucas Pouille, serving for the match. He's raced to two match points courtesy of two big forehands.

Pouille goes cross court, searching for the big backhand winner, and ends up watching the ball bobble off the net and out of play. Edmund keeps his cool to draw a few faults out of Pouille, and he'll hold.

A more subdued talk from Leon Smith to Kyle Edmund as Edmund hides his face briefly in his towel. Lucas Pouille, by contrast, almost skips back onto court. He's a game away from victory.

Pouille is two games from victory and he's not hanging about. Edmund is clearly frustrated, first sending a forehand long before a vicious swat finds net rather than court. Pouille misses his first serve, but not the second.

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Back-to-back double faults for Edmund means he's soon trailing 0-40, and the crowd get their vocal chords warmed up in favour of Pouille. Edmund saves two break points as Pouille overhits but he can't save the third. He slices into the net, and that was a poor game from the Brit.

Jonathan Overend
Commentator on BBC Two

When Edmund is getting beaten, he tends to keep on playing that way. You have to change your tactics.

Not a complete shake-up, but subtle changes are needed.

Edmund gets the early advantage - and the break point - but chucks it away as he goes for the big forehand winner and ends up slashing it out of play.

Now it's Pouille with the advantage and he doesn't waste time in drawing another error out of Edmund. It's two break points lost for Edmund but Pouille never felt out of that game.

Stop everything. Pouille has missed a drop shot! Not enough oomph on it and the ball ended up floating into the net.

Now then. A double fault from Pouille, and that's handed Edmund a break point on a plate. Can he take it? Ooft, he can't, because that is magnificent from Pouille. A gorgeous forehand, well directed and placed perfectly. Deuce.

Edmund unfurls his backhand and it crashes down the line and beyond Pouille's sprawling racquet. That's a good game from Edmund as he holds with a big ol' serve.

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Edmund tries to play Pouille at his own game with the drop shot, setting up the first point - before he puts way too much fizz on an uppish forehand that bounces out. That allows Pouille to settle, two big serves beating Edmund.

Russell Fuller
BBC tennis correspondent in Rouen

Edmund really let the second set out of the bag there, after Pouille had make a shaky start to the tiebreak. That drop shot is hurting Edmund: it was a great fightback by France's number 1.

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That's nice from Kyle Edmund, meeting Pouille's drop shot with a smart little backhand of his own. The Brit still has that big forehand on his side as he races to a 40-0 lead, before Pouille overhits a return. 

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Pouille's drop shot has been a real feature of his game and he hides his latest one well to wrong foot Edmund. Yannick Noah folds his arm in displeasure as Pouille overworks a forehand, but it's a relatively simple hold for the Frenchman in the end.

Kyle Edmund is having a long chat with Leon Smith, while a more animated Yannick Noah has a word with Lucas Pouille. This is a big ask now for Edmund.

Pouille will serve to start the third set.